562,000 Workers Drop Out Of The Labor Force As Participation Rate Resumes Drop

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562,000 Workers Drop Out Of The Labor Force As Participation Rate Resumes Drop
by Tyler Durden, http://www.zerohedge.com 
In addition to the poor headline Establishment survey print which rose only 160,000 in April, coupled with a deplorable Household survey employment number which plunged by 316,000 for the month and below levels seen in February, an even more concerning development was the resumption in the deteriorating trend in the US labor force participation rate, which in recent months had been on a steady increase as far fewer workers were dropping out of the workforce (contrary to convention wisdom, this was not driven by new entrants into the labor force).
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All that changed today, when the number of Americans not in the labor force soared by a whopping 562,000 in April, pushing the grand total of people not in the labor force back over 94 million and fast approaching the all…

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